JERSEY CITY — The Port Authority says only that it “has made progress” over the past 15 months equipping PATH trains and track with the kind of automated breaking system that might have prevented the Amtrak derailment that killed eight people in Philadelphia on Tuesday. But the agency won’t say how much of the system is…

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@”Officials of the national rail corporation and other railway agencies say Congress has failed to provide adequate funding for the technology,”

That is one big load of hooey. Positive Train Control was installed at Frankford Junction in 2011 and has been operating southbound. Because of incompetence and bureaucratic mucking around, it was not operating northbound. Witness how that system began operating in less than a handful of days before Amtrak was allowed to restart service.